Suicidal chloroquine poisoning: Clinical course, autopsy findings, and chemical analysis

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1077-1079

  Muhm, Manfred ^a   Stimpfl, Thomas ^a   Malzer, Reinhard ^a   Mortinger, Herbert ^a   Binder, Reinhard ^a   Vycudilik, Walter ^a   Berzlanovich, Andrea ^a   Bauer, Georg ^a   Laggner, Anton N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

chloroquine poisoning; disseminated intravascular coagulation; forensic science; forensic toxicology; hypokalemia; tissue concentrations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOKALEMIA; LEPTOMENINX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF POISONING;

EID: 0029914141     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs14054j     Document Type: Article

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